Previous posts for December 5rd are here: Little Richard; Grace Moore (2019), Osvaldo Golijov (2020), Francesco Scarlatti (2021), José Carreras; Francesco Geminiani (2022), and Henry Lawes (2023)
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Francesco Scarlatti (5 December 1666 – c. 1741) was an Italian composer and musician, and brother of Alessandro Scarlatti.
Delivering Daniel
The Armonico Consort is set to give the first modern-day performance of Daniele, the only surviving oratorio by the Italian Baroque composer Francesco Scarlatti on January 27 [2024] in a concert at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. The first edition of the oratorio has been produced by Dr Geoffrey Webber, who reconstructed the autograph score discovered in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. – adapted from Theo Elwell, @gramophone.co.uk
Listen, my children, today you shall hear
How Francesco Scarlatti received a premiere
Of a piece overlooked until early this year.
Though it spent silent centuries gathering dust
As it languished in limbo, its fate was unjust
The score lay ignored in a Cambridge collection,
And now has been given its due resurrection,
Performed and recorded with learnéd affection.
Hurrah for the archives! Hurrah for its treasures!
Hurrah for their careful preservative measures!
Hurrah for the drawers and the shelves for safe storage,
Where odd musicologists happily forage!
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